I look into the past. Olesha Yu.K.

Yuri Olesha (1899–1960) entered Russian literature early and brightly. At the time of his youth, the writer participated in Odessa poetic almanacs, in the early 1920s he moved to Moscow, where, together with I. Ilf, V. Kataev, M. Bulgakov, he worked in the Gudok newspaper, wrote poetic feuilletons, released several collections of poems. However, true recognition came to Olesha-prose.

In 1927, his novel “Envy” was released, conversations and disputes about which did not stop for many years. Clear and distinct, with the underlying system of phrases, verbal borrowings from the fields of science and technology, which does not claim to be meaningful, the syllable of Olesha sharply distinguished his manner from the literary work of many contemporaries. Often neglecting the plot, the writer with the excitement of the scientist experienced new ways to describe the subject, landscape, people, their relationships, possessing their impressions, their manners to speak, etc. This attentive, analytical, extremely close view of man and the world around him we will find and we will find and the surrounding world In the subsequent works of Olesha - numerous stories, articles, essays, dramaturgy.

This publication is united by a collection of stories by the writer “Cherry Bone”, created at the very beginning of his creative path, and the collection “I look into the past”, in which autobiographical plots are whimsical, as well as the author’s thoughts about art and about what is happening around.